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Cait Opperman, BFA Photography ’12, was interviewed for We Present’s New Rules: Navigating photography’s unfixed future about her photography background and starting her creative studio, FLOWERS. “People trust you if you are confident in your abilities and have the evidence to back it up,” she says. 

Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, MFA Communications Design ’15, is featured in The New York Times. Her installation, the primitive sign of wanting, is part of the exhibition New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

Professor of Digital Arts and Animation Claudia Herbst-Tait was featured in Animation Magazine for her class 3D Lighting and Rendering. “I think there’s an awareness that things are coming that will change the landscape,” she said. “I try to contextualize that and tell them how the past connects to the future.”

Students and faculty from the School of Architecture discuss gender imbalances in the field of architecture, the importance of inclusivity, and efforts to empower women in an article in Archinect. “For female architects, there are preconceived notions that they might not be as good as men,” said Kriti Malik, BArch ‘26. “The Femmes of the Future mission is to push design that’s women-led—for women, by women, of women.”

Jan Dutkiewicz, assistant professor of social science and cultural studies, considers the clash between climate policy and farmer interests in the EU for Vox. “The protests have come as the EU seeks to pass a slate of laws as part of its Green Deal, a sweeping climate plan that includes checking the worst harms of industrial agriculture, which takes up more than a third of the continent’s landmass and contributes disproportionately to its ecological footprint,” writes Dutkiewicz. “That agenda is colliding with Europe’s longtime paradigm of few-strings-attached welfare for agribusiness.”

Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts Katrin Zimmermann is named among the new co-chairs of Effie Worldwide’s Future Council, which “works to evolve the organization and expand its mission to champion marketing effectiveness.”

Maria Gaspar, BFA ’02, presented Unblinking Eyes, Awaiting (2024), at Frieze New York 2024 as part of Frieze Reframe. The work consists of “multiple panels of high-resolution photographs of the north-end wall of the Cook County Department of Corrections in Chicago, the largest single-site jail in the US and a dominating fixture of the artist’s childhood neighborhood.”

Pratt MFA in Photography Thesis Exhibition: Erin O’Flynn, Ethan Li, Kunwar Prithvi Singh Rathore, was reviewed in Hyperallergic. “With this show, Pratt’s MFA photographers reveal the fingerprints on the landscape to coax out questions of race, power, sexuality, and sustainability.”

Associate Professor of Photography Stephen Hilger wrote an essay for Full Bleed on various books about Los Angeles histories that have influenced his work. “My photographs reflect the ways in which Los Angeles absorbs me. I rely on looking and recording to make both personal histories and larger histories visible,” he writes. “My approach is also inspired by shelves of books authored by photographers, artists, and writers who explore LA’s pasts.”

Visiting Assistant Professor of Creative Enterprise Leadership Innocent Ekejiuba (MPS Arts and Cultural Management ’23) presented at the dmi Diversity in Design Conference in DC/Baltimore. In his presentation, Ekejiuba explored the question: “How do we create cultures of inclusion that leverage the power of community to lead as if life matters and address the crises we are facing?”